Creating Trust, Empowerment, and Followership in Uncertain Times

This program is offered by Leadership Choices and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. You will learn how to add coaching to your leadership signature authentically.

You will primarily learn how coaching as a leader works from a practical perspective. Using the Leadership Choices coaching model, you will be given insights into powerful questions and levels of listening. Moreover, you will learn to apply coaching interventions that have proven successful in a leadership context. Plenty of practical coaching work will take place in the classroom. During the program, you will also be asked to work with real coachees, i.e., coaching clients. After successfully completing the program, you will receive a WHU Executive Education Certificate.

Personal LeadershipLeadership

Suitable for executives with at least:

6YearsLeadership

10YearsWork

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As you grow as a leader in terms of impact and career, it is important to update your own way of leading. Being able to adapt your leadership style to the situation and the people you are leading is the key to greater leadership effectiveness.

Coaching is one of the most impactful leadership styles, as shown by the work of Daniel Goleman and others. It has the potential to unleash the full creativity of people and help create a culture in which people can grow.

At the same time, coaching is not merely a leadership technique: it is also an attitude that requires a certain level of leadership maturity. The leadership maturity of the senior people in an organization can both enable and restrict the leadership culture within the organization. If coaching is used with the wrong intentions, it can easily backfire and even reduce the trust of your people.

Using the Leadership Choices coaching model, you will be given insights into powerful questions and levels of listening. Further, you will apply the learnings of the course directly in live coaching cases that you will work with throughout the program.

Your personal benefit

Enhance the impact and effectiveness of your leadership
Ascertain your own leadership style portfolio
Learn how to turn random interactions into powerful coaching conversations
Create greater empowerment for the people around you
Unleash the creativity and accountability of the people you lead
Maximize your potential as a senior leader through this unique learning experience with intensive, hands-on exercises
Expand your professional network to an interdisciplinary team of leadership experts at one of Germany’s most renowned business schools
Become part of an active network of peers and program alumni at WHU

Your company´s benefits

Help your leaders become more effective
Increase your managers’ job satisfaction and sense of purpose
Create a healthier leadership culture in your organization

Ideal candidate profiles include:

Experienced leaders who want to reflect upon and improve their leadership portfolio
Senior professionals who want to prepare themselves for their next leadership challenge
HR professionals who want to help their managers grow and want to create a coaching culture in their organizations

Participants should have a minimum of 5-7 years of leadership experience.

The minimum number of participants for this program is 12.

This in-class program consists of 2 on-site modules at WHU Campus Düsseldorf (2.5 full days each) and complimentary virtual sessions (1.5 hours each).

The application deadline for this program is March 31, 2022.

The Essence of Coaching for Senior Leaders

Creating Trust, Empowerment, and Followership in Uncertain Times

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